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livus, to news in Guinea-Bissau’s capital has power cut off after government fails to pay electricity bill
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@Nighed yeah... it can't flounce, it can only make a dignified exit ha ha 😄

livus, to linux in Alright, I'm gonna "take one for the team" -- what is with the "downvote-happy" users lately?
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You're on kbin though, which doesn't federate downvotes.

livus, to memes in 👁️👁️
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Nah robots don't need to Musk up.

livus, to movies in Nicolas Cage Ready To Quit Doing Movies: “Maybe Three Or Four More”
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@driving_crooner cool! The plot is terrible but the film's a lot of fun.

livus, to movies in What are you watching? (DECEMBER 2023)
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Good to know. Tthe trailer made it look pretty good but if the narrative is pedestrian then it might be a bit of an empty experience.

livus, to movies in Best Movies of 2023 (NY Times)
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I suddenly keep seeing Godland mentioned.

livus, to asklemmy in People of Lemmy that take more than 5 seconds to start your car and drive, what are you doing?
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Regular offerings!

livus, to memes in As of now I have approximately 1 user.
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It just doesn't have as many features and feels less intuitive.

Kbin going to release API soon.

livus, to mildlyinteresting in Scrabble’s New Official Word List Contains Dozens of Stunning Additions. Elite Players Are Mortified.
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I would actually play that. We would need the letters to be printed on the inside of clear resin cubes so that you can still see all the letters in a stack.

livus, to news in Israel-Palestine, lives of one million children ‘hanging by a thread,’ as child health services almost collapse across the Gaza Strip
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18 is the median age meaning 50% are 18 and under.

livus, to asklemmy in Why do most people not post?
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@SamXavia I think this is something about the fediverse though - in the old, centralised media we were often relatively passively consuming content spoonfed to us by alorithms. Here in the fediverse, it pays to be more active in building and finding content.

It's a bit of an adjustment in mindset and we're all in various stages of that.

livus, to news in Don’t fall into the trap of ‘picking sides’ over Gaza: Hamas’s attacks were unconscionable, razing Gaza to the ground would be abhorrent. In both cases, basic humanity is at stake --- [Opinion]
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@FaulerFuffi assuming that's a genuine question there are a bunch of reasons and one is they don't want to open themselves up to being attacked by Israel.

Why Egypt Won't Open The Border To Its Palestinian Neighbours.

500 people came through recently iirc.

livus, to movies in What are you watching? (NOVEMBER 2023)
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Been watching Minx, it's fun.

livus, to news in "When an eight-year-old tells you that she doesn’t want to die, it’s hard not to feel helpless:" toll of Israel-Palestine crisis on children ‘beyond devastating’, UN says
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@BluJay320 really? I'm from kbin myself, it's mostly chill.

livus, to historyporn in South African diamond miner being x-rayed at the end of his shift to prevent theft, 1954
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@Vytle @Vytle Apartheid era South African history.

Basically the miners there are more likely to be coerced, through things like having been fined and the "pass" system, not trafficked.

In the case of the technician, he is almost certainly a free person. Working class whites normally earned at least 10x the wages in SA mines, even for the same job. But it is unclear whether he belongs to the Apartheid classification "white" or "coloured" (who had less rights and lower pay).

What people are shitting on is his participation in a system of oppression and segregation which devalued the lives of Black people. These mines had incredibly high tuberculosis rates too. He is also using medical technology in a reckless way that causes harm.

But I think you are right in pointing out that to some extent he is a victim of his situation /lack of education, even if he has more privileges and a better situation than the Black mine workers.

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